One of the realities of elections is that you only vote for a few people, but what you get is a whole lot more people. That is, when you vote for the President and Vice-President, you get all those cabinet secretaries, advisers, experts, appointments and staff people. It is not just Obama and Biden, it is his whole staff. It is not just Romney and Ryan, it is all the people they would bring with them.
That is a great part of what worries me the most. That is why I am so opposed to Romney and Ryan. It is very obvious that Romney and Ryan come with the same economic advisers and experts who advised and guided Reagan and Bush. Those advisers are responsible for the “trickle down” theory of economics which have not worked for either of those Presidents. The national debt doubled as percentage of the Gross National Product under those advisers and economist. Their ideas did not work then and I am not convinced those economic ideas will work now.
But even more troublesome is that the same advisers who were advising President Bush on the Middle East, the same experts in Foreign affairs, the same security authorities who gave counsel to President Bush about how to conduct affairs in the Middle East are the same advisers who are a part of Romney’s and Ryan’s team.
These are the experts who were sure that there were weapons of mass destruction. These were the same advisers who were convinced that taking out Saddam Huessin would be a great step forward for our relationships in the Middle East. These are the same think tank people who encouraged “preemptive wars”, the first offensive wars this country has undertaken, and who never managed to develop a plan of what to be done after we took out Huessin. These are the advisers who ended up getting us into two major wars which we are still fighting and never even suggested that there ought to be taxes increased to pay for the wars. So those wars were added to the debt.
I have been terribly disappointed that Obama has not ended the war in Iraq more quickly. It was one of his promises and we are still there. He has set a deadline for coming home, but apparently it is much harder to end a war than it is to start one. We get all that equipment and people over there and it is hard to turn around and bring it back home. Especially after all the rubble that has been created by all the bombings and conflicts. You feel kind of guilty going over there and creating a war and then just up and leaving them to clean up.
Because it appears to be so hard to end a war, we do not need to have those same advisers giving guidance to Romney on Iran and Syria, on affairs in the middle east. As the new Egyptian President said it is now time for the United States to develop new partnership relationships with the countries of the Arab Spring. The old advisers of Bush who are now advising Romney still are not ready to become partners with those emerging nations. At least, not if what Romney has said about Iran and Syria are any indication.
Obama and his people have made major improvements in our international relationships.
You’ve got to be kidding on this–We still haven’t heard the real truth from the White House on the Sept.. 11 2012 terror attack in Libya. Nor that Obama had not been attending the weekly security meetings–they interfered with his campaigning schedule.
Four years of foreign diplomacy are going to be reduced and evaluated on one event? Libya is a government in chaos and in creation. There are many different groups at war with each other and some with us. If Indians had killed foreigners in the settlement of this country, would George Washington been responsible?
My goodness, Rick, where do I start? Obama has so many advisors with questionable credentials, but I think I will start with the most egregious, Valerie Jarrett. She is a committed leftist and was known in Chicago as Mayor Daley’s “Public Black Face.” Daley had to fire her after an investigation revealed that she had misused public funds. At the time, a Chicago newspaper article described her as “known for her incompetence and corruption.” Next she managed a housing complex which was seized by the government because, under Jarrett’s management, had become a slum and funds intended for maintenance could not be accounted for. Despite her checkered background, Obama seeks her advice on a daily basis. She controls access to Obama, gives him advice on foreign policy and economic matters. One of her closest friends is billionaire George Kaiser who owns 35% of Solyndra. Jarrett pushed the Solyndra fiasco and convinced Obama to support the project with taxpayers funds. Kaiser, as of last week, has visited Obama in the White House 16 times. An article recently in a Washington newspaper described her role this way: “Her main role is to make Obama feel good about himself.”
Rick, you skipped over the debate rather adroitly. Please give us your take on Ms. Jarrett. I have a dozen or so more socialist types who advise Obama, but first, I want you to explain her to the voters of Vance County. Please don’t call this a personal attack, Rick. Just the facts, please.
That is exactly my point. Each of them comes with lots of different people. My focus here is that Romney has the same advisers that got us into two wars and who are advising him that we “need to be more forcefu” in the middle east. “WE have to shape history.” Not that we have to share the job with other nations to build a world that can cooperate. No. The advisers are telling him try to tell the middle east what to do. That got us into two wars and I do not want any more veterans.
Most of your comments about domestic advisers simple attempt to slander them by calling them names you do not like. Liberals, Socialist, leftist are, for you, slander words and insults.
This post is about foreign affairs.
Rick, read your recent history. Vallerie Jarrett has influenced Obama in regard to foreign affairs. She was deeply involved in the Ben Laden affair as well as writing statements for the press about the Middle East within the last two weeks. She has accompanied both Obama and his wife on foreign trips several times. She doesn not deny her socialist leanings and you think that is the type person we need in the White House and obviously in the President’s ear?
I guess you think Hilliary Clinton is doing a great job? On my many trips to Arkansas, I have heard about her and and her trips to the White Water Savings & Loan on Friday afternoons to get “her walking around money for the weekend.” It wasn’t her money, Rick. What an awful human being she is.
Rick, don’t think you are going to be allowed to pontificate and spew your left-wing garbage without being challenged. Just because you say, “This post is about foreign affairs” doesn’t mean you get a free pass. So you don’t want to comment about Vallerie Jarrett? How about George Soros? Tell me that he doesn’t influence foreign affairs.
Here’s a Very Good example of the same thing on a smaller scale happening right in your city of Henderson. You elected(or she won by Alston’s default) a city council member who tried for 2-3 times prior to unseat Mr. Bernard Alston….unsucessfully I might add. When it comes to Budget work sessions,etc. that have to do with Public Safely(POLICE) do you not see a “conflict of interest” when this particular council member makes her living off of getting arrested individuals out of jail and back onto the streets. Is that not a conflict of interest when she may/may not cast a deciding vote on whether or not the POLICE get a certain amount of funding to make Henderson safer and put criminals in jail?
I saw that a couple of weeks ago she ran an advertisement in the local Daily Dispatch offering REWARD $$$ for information on the whereabouts of an individual that she had bonded out of jail. Wonder how many other criminal acts he committed while out on bail since it is quite evident that he “jumped bail”!!! I saw an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter where his wife Beth talked “smack” to another bail agent b/c the agent was ‘trying to play both sides of the fence”!!! Don’t you have an elected official on the city council that does the same thing but has a vote on the POLICE budget $$$$ as well as other budget items? And you wonder why Henderson is in the shape it is in?
NUFF SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Good article Deception. We can’t do a thing about the mess in Washington, but we can put the heat on things in our community.
I think you must be referring to John Bolton, an unusually vile neocon, one of Flopney’s foreign policy advisors. He advised the idiot son to invade Iraq. Should Flopney win, it’s on to Tehran.
Check it out–WRAL has a story about voters in Halifax County–where the unemployment rate is about like Vance County. Even a 91 year old woman who has always voted Democrat isn’t sure yet this year, and several others interviewed were switching to Romney. I’d like to see this interview go national.
It looks like Thursday’s debate, if Ryan does as well as Romeny–could make the second presidential debate well watched also.
Rick, if you are so concerned about the people around the President, what do you think about Joe Biden who last month made a speech and said, “This election is about one THREE letter word…… JOBS.”? Huh? This guy is just a heartbeat away…..Aww, forget it. We could always move Nancy Pelosi into the job.